> I'm not sure where this fits in the discussion but, yeah, that SOUNDS > like a ridiculous program. The article did not read all that unbiased > so I have to reserve judgment to some degree - as I do with any news > story. > > On the other hand, the saving of several species of migratory birds > has come by way Ducks Unlimited. Further, in the US, EVERY TIME you > buy anything to do with hunting or shooting (to include ammo and guns) > you have contributed to the care of our parks and conservation > departments. If everyone in the country stopped buying hunting and > fishing stuffs tomorrow they would have to close our national parks.
Huh. So there's no other way that this could be financed. > Never mind the arguments any government conservation agent will give > you about bettering the herds of wildlife and creating habitat - > without hunting there wouldn't be a conservation department in your > state, AND you'd wipe out the populations of several large game > species. This sounds *so* like the arguments used by foxhunters to defend their fun of chasing a small brown fox using a huge pack of dogs and cavalry. I expect the Spanish use the same arguments about bullfighting, and the bear-baiters, cockfighters and dogfighters were likely the same. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
